Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come. — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. — Moliere Copy Share Image
We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S. F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men… — Colin Jordan Copy Share Image
What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the collective unconscious. The idea that there is a deep connection between all of us that goes… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]” — Maria Martin Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.” — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image